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With that in mind, I would say this is an average to decent Bloodaxe compilation of contemporary poets in India or of Indian origin and diaspora. Some poems are sweet as though they had been written to go with an evening tea, some are nostalgic as if made for a rainy day, some are melancholic to be read beside a window of a moving train , but many others others are excruciatingly monotonous when not pompous and presumptous ( are we accidentally rhyming love?) , some of course are hopeless factory seconds.

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